1 Corinthians 13

1 If I speak with the languages of men and of angels, but don’t have love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

If I speak the languages of men, even of angels, but have not love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal.

2 If I have the gift of prophecy, and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but don’t have love, I am nothing.

And if I have prophecy and know all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.

3 If I give away all my goods to feed the poor, and if I give my body to be burned, but don’t have love, it profits me nothing.

Even if I give away all my possessions and hand over my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.

4 Love is patient and is kind. Love doesn’t envy. Love doesn’t brag, is not proud,

Love is patient and kind; love does not envy; love does not brag, is not proud,

5 doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;

is not indecent, is not self-seeking, is not ‘short-fused’, is not malicious;

6 doesn’t rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

it does not take pleasure in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth;

7 bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, and endures all things.

it bears all, believes all, hopes all, endures all;

8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will be done away with. Where there are various languages, they will cease. Where there is knowledge, it will be done away with.

love never fails. Now as for prophecies, they will be set aside; as for languages, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will be superseded;

9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part;

since we know in part and prophesy in part.

10 but when that which is complete has come, then that which is partial will be done away with.

But whenever the complete should come, then the ‘in part’ will be done away with.

11 When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I thought as a child. Now that I have become a man, I have put away childish things.

(When I was a small child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; but when I became a man, I put away the things of the child.)

12 For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, even as I was also fully known.

Because now we see blurred images as in a metal mirror, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I will know fully, just as I also am fully known.

13 But now faith, hope, and love remain—these three. The greatest of these is love.

For now these three obtain: faith, hope, love; and the greatest of these is love.